Nowhere Near the Edge

My new sideline career as a griping busybody stringer for the local virtual newspaper has dawned. In this fine piece of investigative jou...

My college roomate, the erstwhile Professor, left academia recently to return to government work in his field of human factors analysis, wit...

Took a couple of interesting pictures today. One of the northern tip of the Upper San Leandro Reservoir: Another of my car: Fun fact: both...

The sturdiness of airliners is in the news these days, what with a Southwest 737 recently shedding a few pounds of fuselage over Arizona. I...

San Francisco is one of the world's great cities in many ways, not the least of which is its beauty (when it is not enshrouded in fog). ...

After 14 years, she continues to charm, amaze and make me proud to be her dad. 14 is a great age. Solidly into the teen years, you rule the...

It was only a matter of time. When Michael was little more than a toddler, we were told that he would have major issues with his teeth comi...

Thanks to a Christmas gift from Cheryl, we went to the Giants' first game in San Francisco since the World Series (which, in case you ha...

The AP Stylebook has announced that henceforth it will refer to electronic messages as "emails," not "e-mails." This c...

Saturday was one of the sports-intensive days we get every once in a while. We were on the go from 8:30 in the morning until after 4 in the...

This image, from the US Geological Society's earthquake reporter , shows how active the ground has been off the coast of Japan over the ...

We met with the student counselor yesterday at the high school Kelly will attend in the fall. Or, rather, Kelly met with her counselor, and...

To the person in front of me on the narrow two lane country road near home driving seven miles per hour below the posted speed limit: You kn...

All week, the media were abuzz with the thrilling news that the Bay Area would see snowfall by Friday night. Even San Francisco residents e...

A Silicon Valley startup (of course) has come up with an earthquake warning system . The device detects the "P" waves that humans...

I am soon to be the parent of a high school student. If I seem distracted from time to time, if I occasionally sleep poorly, this graph may...

Our annual February heatwave hit its climax this weekend. Even though Saturday dawned below freezing, by midafternoon we basked in 70° weath...

The genius of Apple's rise over the last decade has been its success in putting good technology (or even industry-changing, in the case ...

After helping out with Kelly and Michael's soccer teams for a collective 12 years or so, and after playing the sport myself for six year...

Sage wisdom I ran across on the interwebz today: “The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine.” – Abraham Lincoln